It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
People want security in this insecure world.
I never set out to be a photographer.
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
I always go for simplicity.
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
You adapt to who you're photographing.
